this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
52 points (91.9% liked)

Out of the loop

10659 readers
32 users here now

A community that helps people stay up to date with things going on.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
52
Unity License Changes (lemmy.one)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Whats the final outcome of Unity's changes to their license. Also, do the changes apply to previously released games?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

To put some perspective on that. If you make $200,000 in sales, $60,000 is paid to the digital store.

Out of your remaining $140,000 if half of your 200k users reinstall your game then that's another 100k x $0.20 = $20,000 out of your pocket.

And you can still get billed for future reinstalls.

Say an indie game with decent polish can easily get to 3 development years worth of effort, that leaves the developers with the equivalent of $40,000 each.